Improvement in rakes



R. P. WALKER. RAKES. No.180,39 8. Patented July 25,1876.

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26 faiwz? i i l l we e UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RUFUS P. WALKER, OFDANSVILLE, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT m RAKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,398, dated July 25,1876; application filed July 31, 1873.

To a. whom it may concern Be it known that 1, R. P. WALKER, ofDansville, in the county of Ingham and State ofMiehigan, have inventedan Improvement in Rakes, of which the following is a specification:

This invention has for its object to so construct and apply the bracesto the handle and head of a hay-rake as that the latter will be betterenabled to resist lateral strains; and it consists in the peculiarconformation and application of two curved iron braces to the head andhandle, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

1n the drawing, A represents the head of a hay-rake,armed with the teetha, and in which is mortisedthe handle B. C (J are two curved ironbraces, each of which is inserted horizontally through the handle to itsmiddle. It is then bent forward and hammered flat against each side ofthe handle for a short distance; thence curved outwardly to the head andhammered flat against its inner side, extending toward the end; thencepassed through a hole in the head and hammered flat against its face, orclinched, as shown in the drawing; The braces being in this mannerclamped firmly to the handle andthe rake-head, the latter is held firmlyat right angles to the former, and prevented from twisting off the tenonof the handle by lateral torsion.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the handle B and head A of a rake, of the braces U0, arranged, bent, and secured as described.

RUFUS P. WALKER.

Witnesses:

M. M. ATWOOD, W. J. Pos'r.

